Homeward Bound
Dryer sheet wannabe
Hi Everyone,
I just found this site a few hours ago while reading another site.
I am 55yo and have been ready to retire for a while. My wife is Taiwanese, and a bit older than me, at 59. We have lived the past three plus decades in Taiwan and we are both ready to relocate to the US to live out the rest of our days in what will hopefully be a blissful existence.
I suppose the wife and I are financially set, although we will be getting no social security and no pensions (because I have worked virtually my entire career over here, and foreign nationals do not receive pensions). Most of our money is back in the US making money for us. We have our residence here, which we will sell when we are ready to leave. The only thing keeping us here, now, is that I don't want to leave before my MIL departs. I want my wife to be able to care for her until the end.
I will probably read what you all have to say more than I will post, at least initially. Our (the wife and me) main concern is the type of house we will buy when we relocate to Pittsburgh, as that is home (still!) for me.
Hopefully we'll both continue getting older for a while. We are fairly healthy and ambulatory, now, and hope to stay that way as long as possible. Nonetheless, we know that getting older means slowing down and possible problems with mobility.
We've been looking at homes all around the Pittsburgh area for years, and still do not know whether we want to buy a big place out in the country a ways (because we've been cramped in a small place for so long with neighbors on top and below and next to us) or look for something smaller and more in town, as we've grown accustomed to the convenience of city-living.
Anyway, I suppose that's enough for now. I look forward to "meeting" all of yinz here and to reading and posting!
I just found this site a few hours ago while reading another site.
I am 55yo and have been ready to retire for a while. My wife is Taiwanese, and a bit older than me, at 59. We have lived the past three plus decades in Taiwan and we are both ready to relocate to the US to live out the rest of our days in what will hopefully be a blissful existence.
I suppose the wife and I are financially set, although we will be getting no social security and no pensions (because I have worked virtually my entire career over here, and foreign nationals do not receive pensions). Most of our money is back in the US making money for us. We have our residence here, which we will sell when we are ready to leave. The only thing keeping us here, now, is that I don't want to leave before my MIL departs. I want my wife to be able to care for her until the end.
I will probably read what you all have to say more than I will post, at least initially. Our (the wife and me) main concern is the type of house we will buy when we relocate to Pittsburgh, as that is home (still!) for me.
Hopefully we'll both continue getting older for a while. We are fairly healthy and ambulatory, now, and hope to stay that way as long as possible. Nonetheless, we know that getting older means slowing down and possible problems with mobility.
We've been looking at homes all around the Pittsburgh area for years, and still do not know whether we want to buy a big place out in the country a ways (because we've been cramped in a small place for so long with neighbors on top and below and next to us) or look for something smaller and more in town, as we've grown accustomed to the convenience of city-living.
Anyway, I suppose that's enough for now. I look forward to "meeting" all of yinz here and to reading and posting!